No Clinging
Holy rascals follow the advice of Seng-Ts’an (529–609 AD), the Third Patriarch of Ch’an Buddhism: “Seek not after Truth; cease only to cling to opinions” (Hsin-Hsin Ming). It isn’t that we have no opinions; it’s that we don’t cling to them. Holy rascals are never certain. Always living with uncertainty, we pull the rug of surety out from under our own feet before we help pull it out from under the feet of others.
There are two traps into which holy rascals fall: we forget to be holy, or we forget to be rascals. Forgetting to be holy, we are mean. Forgetting to be rascals, we are meaningless. RR